missionaries

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Old Town, my slightly disheveled neighborhood of churches, Mexican-adjacent tchotchke shops, is where missionaries established their first mission, colonizing the town that belonged to the country south of the US border.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

For generations, the Hadzabe, also known as the Hadza, have kept their distance from modern agriculture, guns, missionaries, poachers and encroaching pastoralists.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

The parrots, lore tells us, brought by missionaries, stayed even after the city became what it is now.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

With the arrival of European traders and missionaries, Christianity spread rapidly through Apam.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

My family might never have become silk farmers if it hadn’t been for the Emperor Justinian, who, according to Procopius, persuaded two missionaries to risk it.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides